G. Lucas Crane

G. Lucas Crane is a sound artist, performer, and musician whose work focuses on information anxiety, media confusion, and recycled technology. Using a combination field recordings culled from the underbelly of the contemporary sonic media landscape and homemade electronic instruments, oscillators and broken machines, he creates compositions and performances as a reaction to, and illustration of, our information detritus choked times.

1967: Silver Apples is the duo of Simeon Coxe III (vocals) and Danny Taylor (drums). Simeon plays a self-made instrument named after himself which quickly became the duo's trademark. The 'Simeon' consists of 9 audio oscillators played through 86 controller keys. The band is far ahead of its time and people are not quite ready yet for the Silver Apples sound: an exploration of interstellar rumblings, hums, pulsating rhythms and electronically generated melodies, complemented by Simeon's vocals. Fast forward to the late seventies and further: for the next two decades the duo's ideas are being adopted by a.o. Suicide, Spacemen 3, Laika and Add N to (X)… Nowadays the list of performers indebted to Silver Apples equals the length of a toilet paper roll. Danny Taylor died in 2005. Simeon will be performing alone.